HillaryDonald Go

Hi Product Hunt! We are two Dartmouth professors who created HillaryDonald Go, an augmented reality game that is a hybrid between Pokemon Go and a political contest. Players follow maps to search for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump at 1,000,000 locales (“booths”) around the entire U.S (and U.S. embassies around the world). They select the candidate they prefer and shake their phones to send points—or “vibes”—to Clinton or Trump. The candidate with the most vibes wins the booth. Players compete in their neighborhoods, towns, and states to flip the most booths to their preferred candidate. The app may give social scientists and political pundits a sense of electoral mood across geographic spaces in a way that polls cannot easily do. Let us know what you think, we really appreciate any feedback about gameplay or other ideas for the game. We're about to add the option of finding Hillary's emails and Donald's tax returns as a way to get more vibes. Joseph Bafumi Mikhail Gronas

Politics just jumped the shark 😂

Ha, great idea! With the success of Pokemon GO, I imagine we'll be seeing and more and more of these types of games. And I'm totally cool with that.